State Senator Juan Hinojosa won't be facing gun charges after he was arrested at an airport carrying a handgun.
Fountain pens are too dangerous for children under the age of 14, the British Standards Institution says.
After decades when young pupils were encouraged to master penmanship, the benefits of developing good handwriting are now seen to be outweighed by the risk of swallowing the cap.
In northern Virginia the police say they're looking for a woman who's been holding up banks while chatting on her phone... Investigators say they're not sure if she's actually talking to someone on the phone or just pretending. They also won't speculate on why she's chosen only Wachovia branches.
Should victims of gun violence be able to sue gun-based organizations in Wisconsin?
The new 50 Cent movie "Get Rich or Die Tryin'" has been pulled from a theater where a man was fatally shot... Shelton Flowers, 30, had just watched the rapper's movie Wednesday when he got into a confrontation with three men in the bathroom. A fight ensued and spilled out into the concessions area, where Flowers was shot, police said.
Urban areas such as Chicago have more restrictive laws for gun transportation. If the state government had been put in charge of such laws, it would have likely meant much looser regulations for these areas. The fact remains that people that are transporting guns in Chicago probably pose a greater nuisance to the public than people transporting guns in Mahomet. If people in Mahomet want to be able to drive around with pistols in their glove compartments, let them do it. But similar regulations would be foolish in Chicago. Local governments should be able to do what they need to do to protect their communities based on their circumstances and ways of life.
Races in Mahomet:
White Non-Hispanic (97.7%)
Hispanic (0.9%)
Two or more races (0.6%)
Races in Chicago:
Black (36.8%)
White Non-Hispanic (31.3%)
Hispanic (26.0%)
Other race (13.6%)
Two or more races (2.9%)
Chinese (1.1%)
Filipino (1.0%)
Asian Indian (0.9%)
American Indian (0.7%)
Other Asian (0.5%)
(Total can be greater than 100% because Hispanics could be counted in other races)
Hard to say because it's been 11 days since two African- American teenagers were killed, electrocuted during a police chase, which prompted all of this.Quick--somebody tell Minister Farrakhan and Rev. Sharpton!
MEASURE H (SF Gun Ban)
YES . . . . . . . . . . . . 89,696 - 57.91
NO. . . . . . . . . . . . . 65,185 - 42.09
Unless respect for the rights of D.C. residents to make their own laws -- and common sense about gun safety -- prevails on Capitol Hill, by week's end the city's sensible and broadly supported gun safety law will be history.
Teaching young people how to make good choices is the focus of the new program called EKG, or Educating Kids about Gun Violence.
"I bought a handgun. I sold the gun illegally. I sent the gun into a heated confrontation that ended in someone being killed. And I lied to the police about what happened," said Johnson, who was released from prison in September after serving 10 years of a 35-year sentence for murder.
Norton said the NRA can help make Project Safe Neighborhoods a success.
"The President is counting on your involvement in Project Safe Neighborhoods," she told NRA members. "We will get guns out of the hands of criminals," Norton said to a round of applause.
Music icon Madonna recently had a bad experience while hunting, which has left her so shaken, that she has vowed never to pick up a gun again in her life... And she added that even though she is a non-vegetarian, she will never be able to kill anything herself again and would rather leave the gruesome job to other people.
They are an infestation that works unceasingly at nibbling away valuable structures. Causing untold damage and harm.
Firearms
45 The carrying and use of firearms for personal protection or protection of a ship is strongly discouraged.
46 Carriage of arms on board ship may encourage attackers to carry firearms thereby escalating an already dangerous situation, and any firearms on board may themselves become an attractive target for an attacker. The use of firearms requires special training and aptitudes and the risk of accidents with firearms carried on board ship is great. In some jurisdictions, killing a national may have unforeseen consequences even for a person who believes he has acted in self defence.
I’m looking for SF City Residents to act as Plaintiff’s for the SF Gun Ban which will take effect. I need volunteers ASAP!!!!! You must be a city resident.
A blogger who criticised the Libyan government online has been imprisoned for 18 months, according to Human Rights Watch. A Tripoli court convicted Abdel Raziq al-Mansuri of illegal possession of a handgun...
"The gun charges are a ruse. The authorities went after al-Mansuri because they did not like what he wrote."
City police have launched another gun amnesty program aimed at curbing gun violence.
This time, the only incentive offered is knowing you did the right thing...Even if law-abiding citizens turn in just one weapon, Blair said that's one less gun for gangs to steal.
"The dissent in the Rybar case reflects a passive-aggressive approach to judicial review...
U.S. Senator Dick Durbin and teens from UCAN joined forces to release the results of the 2005 UCAN Teen Gun Survey, a national survey of teen attitudes on gun violence...The survey also portrays that an overwhelming majority of teens (82.7%) feel that handguns should be childproofed like medicine bottles.
Holland said his gun was disabled after it was hit by a bullet...
Stockpiling supplies and developing family response plans in case disaster strikes not only might save lives — it's also a civic duty, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said Monday in an interview with The Associated Press.
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Take a good look at our Second Amendment. Good weapons keep men free; when you forget that, tyranny increases.
A state appellate panel Tuesday upheld a lower court ruling that Asbury Park did not have the authority to allow Police Director Louis Jordan to wear a uniform, carry a gun and make arrests when he was hired in May 2002.
For John Roberts, it was a "hapless toad'' in the path of a California housing development that represented the limits of the federal government's power to regulate activities within a state. For Samuel Alito Jr., it was a machine gun.
"There isn't really any middle ground on this issue," State Police Director Larry Trent said at a news conference Tuesday. "You either stand with the gun lobby or you stand with law enforcement."
Beck said that shortly before noon, a man slashed at four persons, who called for help from a police officer patrolling in Lafayette Park, just north of the White House.
The park is often packed with tourists who walk outside the presidential residence.
The film's director, Jim Sheridan, agreed that people were making too much of the poster, and that people need to focus on real guns, and not Hollywood props.
He said: "I'm not really so concerned about cardboard guns on a poster. I'd be much more concerned about real guns. I think they should make a bigger effort to get rid of the guns."
D.C Police say the reason an armed Special Police Officer, who eventually pleaded guilty to robbing a couple in Georgetown, was allowed to carry a gun in the first place was because of human error.
WTOP has learned two Metropolitan Police Department officers have been disciplined for failing to notice that Xavier Brooks was wanted by police at the same time he was applying to be an armed special police officer.
Registration is critical to allowing police to track guns back to their legal owners when they fall into the wrong hands...Now if you want to talk about a deterrent to crime!!!!! Because of the gun registry the police can trace guns (WHICH WERE SOLD ILLEGALLY by a so called law abiding gun owner) back to that gun owner!!!Just another example how the gun registry part of our gun control law works AND why we need it!...Making gun owners responsible for the most effect personal killing tool ever invented IS A GOOD THING!
President Bush, stung by the rejection of his first choice, nominated conservative judge Samuel Alito on Monday to replace moderate Justice Sandra Day O'Connor in a bid to reshape the Supreme Court and mollify his political base.
There are other conservative judges who are currently on the federal bench who also have a high regard for the U.S. Constitution. Judge Samuel Alito, Jr., in the Third Circuit, has argued that Congress has no right to regulate the private possession of machine guns.
So it's the official policy of the City of Madison -- at least according to its mayor -- to assault citizens just as a preventive measure.
Restrict the flow of legal weapons, and the number of guns circulating illegally on city streets would decline. "We need to go after traffickers who have highly developed businesses... just like selling hotdogs," says Bryan Miller of Ceasefire New Jersey, which lobbies for gun safety.
For all the talk of enforcing existing gun laws, those statutes have not kept illegal guns out of the hands of criminals. So lawmakers need to enact the one-handgun-a-month proposal being championed by Rep. John Myers and Sen. LeAnna M. Washington, both Philadelphia Democrats. Limiting legal handgun purchases - not hunting rifles - to a dozen per year would preserve gun owners' rights, while seriously hampering gun traffickers.
He argued that the NRA does support gun laws that are effective in reducing crime..
Calgary police Chief Jack Beaton says he wants to work with the city's firing ranges to devise a strict registry that would require every user to provide information and photo ID.
"We don't want gang members improving their shot," said Beaton.
Now, he's in a bureaucratic black hole: Federal immigration officials wouldn't renew his permanent resident card or tell him when he could reschedule the swearing-in ceremony. No one at the local U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services office could tell him what to do next to get his citizenship papers, or even how to renew his immigration documents.
A COMPUTER nerd was yesterday jailed for three years for selling replica guns on the internet. Andrew Phillips ran a website called Guns2 Thugs.com from his bedroom at his mum's house...Police closed the website in a raid on Phillips's Nottingham home after questions were asked in the Commons.
The jail and the Orange County Sheriff's Office declined to release Figueroa's mug shot taken when he was booked at the jail. Florida public-records law permits law-enforcement officers charged with a crime to withhold their booking photographs.[Via Wolfesblog]
1. Which liberal says that labor unions are essential for worker rights and accepted the Cesar Chavez Award for their contributions to the labor movement, but uses non-union labor in the hotels, restaurants, and Napa Valley Vineyard that they own?
a. Susan Sarandon
b. Paul Newman
c. Nancy Pelosi
Police shouldn't be allowed to confiscate guns from hurricane victims as they reportedly did in New Orleans, said a state lawmaker who has introduced legislation to make sure that doesn't happen in Florida...
The bill (HB 285) would amend a law that permits the governor to suspend the sale, dispensing or transportation of firearms. It would add that nothing in the law "shall be construed to authorize the seizure, taking or confiscation of firearms that are lawfully possessed."
The men burst into Frias Tire and Mechanic sometime between 7 p.m. and 8 p.m. last Thursday. At least two shots were fired - one into a wall, one into the ground - by the impostor cops, Gener said.
"Chief Bratton needed a permit because when he became Chief of LAPD he was not a sworn California peace officer legally entitled to carry a firearm. Bratton got a CCW, despite the fact that his 'good cause' justification for needing a CCW was completely inadequate under LAPD's current standards as applied to ordinary citizens."
Outside the Superdome, chaos ruled. Looters ransacked with impunity. Armed gangs robbed and raped and killed. Rescue helicopters were shot at. Police were photographed and videotaped joining in the looting. Hundreds went AWOL or quit outright. Mayor Nagin bizarrely claimed they needed a 5-day all-expenses-paid Las Vegas vacation to cope with the stress.
Police Chief Reginald Roberts and Lt. Jerome Cox were arrested Thursday following an undercover operation on charges of conspiring to distribute crack cocaine. The chief also was charged with unlawfully selling a firearm to a convicted felon.
Investigators say the officer placed his gunbelt on top of his patrol car as he was leaving the Campobello elementary school Tuesday.
He then drove off, forgetting it.
Postcards of bikini-clad beauties frolicking on Rio's famed beaches could be banned from sales in the city's shops and newsstands in an attempt to discourage sex tourism.
TWO couples suffered a terrifying ordeal early yesterday after robbers forced their way into a house and fired a gun to back up their demands for money.
Western Queensland gun owners will face a safety audit to ensure their weapons are being stored correctly.
The six-month state-wide audit will see police make appointments with randomly selected licenced weapon holders to inspect their storage facilities.
Najee Ali finalized with a strong sentiment, citing that “Guns are weapons of mass destruction that are used to kill people. We demand that Paramount Pictures remove these negative images of death and destruction, images that our young children are influenced by.”
Johannesburg - About 17 000 police firearms were reported lost or stolen between 1990 and 2003 - about 1nbsp;000 [as appearing in original--DC] a year or 108 a month...
"I can't say how many of the firearms reported lost or stolen by the police have been used in violent crimes, but I know that the police use Z88 service pistols. These firearms are one of the types used regularly in violent crimes..."
Daniel Craig will have a problem playing the new James Bond - because he hates guns.
The actor will wield 007's famous Walther PPK in the movie Casino Royale.
But he revealed in OK! magazine: "I hate handguns. Handguns are used to shoot people and as long as they are around, people will shoot each other.
So by no means mention that the likely weapon in these murders is a .223 caliber rifle, probably of the sort usually called “military-style,” which actually means “military.” These rifles have a range about five times the range typically favored by deer hunters.
If only more Americans had the courage to defy freedom-stifling edicts..."What concerns me is the increasing willingness of criminals to use guns to kill people," he said. "Gun crime in Islington (North London) increased by 148 per cent last year."
